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           Moreover,incertainoccurrencesaninexplicableinfluencehadcometotheiraid!...Butallthatcouldonlybeforatime.

           Inshort,CyrusHardingbelievedthatfortunehadturnedagainstthem.

           Infact,theconvicts’shiphadappearedinthewatersoftheisland,andifthepirateshadbeen,sotospeak,miraculouslydestroyed,sixofthem,atleast,hadescapedthecatastrophe.Theyhaddisembarkedontheisland,anditwasalmostimpossibletogetatthefivewhosurvived.Ayrtonhadnodoubtbeenmurderedbythesewretches,whopossessedfirearms,andatthefirstusethattheyhadmadeofthem,Herberthadfallen,woundedalmostmortally.Werethesethefirstblowsaimedbyadversefortuneatthecolonists?ThiswasoftenaskedbyHarding.Thiswasoftenrepeatedbythereporter;anditappearedtohimalsothattheintervention,sostrange,yetsoefficacious,whichtillthenhadservedthemsowell,hadnowfailedthem.Hadthismysteriousbeing,whateverhewas,whoseexistencecouldnotbedenied,abandonedtheisland?Hadheinhisturnsuccumbed?

           Noreplywaspossibletothesequestions.ButitmustnotbeimaginedthatbecauseHardingandhiscompanionsspokeofthesethings,theywerementodespair.Farfromthat.Theylookedtheirsituationintheface,theyanalyzedthechances,theypreparedthemselvesforanyevent,theystoodfirmandstraightbeforethefuture,andifadversitywasatlasttostrikethem,itwouldfindinthemmenpreparedtostruggleagainstit.

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